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- Earl Houston had a long illness of heart problems and he took his ownlife.
STILWELL DEMOCRAT JOURNAL.......Services Held In Tennesee for E.H. McFarland
Earl Houston McFarland. 47. died Friday afternoon from a gunshot woun d.
Officers said the wound was apparently self-inflected.
McFarland, who lived on Third Street, was shot once in the head with a
.22 caliber rifle. Associate District Attorney Lloyd E. ColeJr sai d the
gun was fired from about six inches.
There was no one in the house at the time. Mrs McFarland and their t wo
sons, Luis and Rudolph, were in the yard when she heard the shot.
The McFarlands moved here about seven months ago from Chicago.
He had been in bad health for some time. The family said he had undergone
open heart surgery twice, the last time about three years ago.
McFarland, a beteran of World War II and a disabled veteran of the Ko rean
Conflict, was born in Tennessee.
Survivors include his wife. Leonora McFaarland and two sons , of th e home
in Stilwell: Three sisters and five brothers including Charles McFarl and
of Route 3 Stilwell. Services were held in Paris Tenn.
Local arrangements were under the direction of the Roberts Funeral Ho me.
THE POST INTELLINGENCER..........COUNTY NATIVE DIES AT AGE 44
Henry County native Earl H. McFarland, 44 died at 3:30pm, Friday at h is
home , 110 S.4th St. in Stillwell, Okla. He was a retired glazier.
Funeral services were to be at 2pm today at Ridgeway Morticians wit h the
Rev. Whitesell Harpole officiation. Burial was to be in Maplewood Cemetary.
Pallbearers were Robert Lee Evans, Carl Evans, Donald Evans, John Dun nJr.,
Basil Pillow and Ray Spaulding.
Born July 19,1927, McFarland was a son of the late Robert N. and Matt ie
Edging McFarland. His wife, Lenora, whom he married April 16, 1966,
survives.
Besides his wife, he leaves a daughter, Miss Judy McFarlanad of Paris;
two step-sons, Louis Castillo and Rudolph Jourque, both of Stillwell;
three sisters, Mrs. Johnny Myrick and Mrs. Frenzie P. Evans, Both o fParis
and Mrs. Louise Dunn of Chicago; and five brothers Charles O. McFarla nad
of Stillwell, Harold V. McFarland and William E. McFarland, both of Chicago,
James L McFarland of Calumet, Ill., and Paul R. McFarland of Paris.
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1926 - 1972 (45 years)
